Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Not Much Hope

Even now I continue to resist
concluding that all is hopeless. I fear hopelessness as that is the end. There
is nowhere to go after hopelessness. But we are, I am convinced, certainly
approaching hopelessness. We have a Congress that is so dysfunctional it does
nothing. We have a President who is constrained from doing much of anything
mainly because he is Black. And both our President and Congress have proven
themselves to be morally bankrupt by their overwhelming and unconditional support
for the blatant and continuing Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Personally, I find this not only appalling but virtually unbelievable. As both
parties are equally in favor of this ongoing theft, murder, and genocide, I no
longer participate at any level in this morally bankrupt national suicide. Having
now reached the state of a pariah nation, along with the totally evil Israeli
government, it is inevitable that we will eventually collapse because of our
own mindless, aggressive, short-sighted, greedy, racist, egomaniacal, and
ethnocentric behavior.

I see very little hope for
the future, little more than a bare glimmer, and the odds, I think, are not
good. The coming elections will give us our usual choice of voting for the lesser
of two evils. Thus about the only chance we will have is a bit of a long shot.
If Democrats hold control of the Senate, and if they also gain control of the
House, there is a chance that at least some of our more domestic problems may
be at least partly alleviated. But who becomes President will also be critical.
I do not think Hillary Clinton is the right person at the right time but she,
of course, would be far better than any of the potential Republican candidates.
Hillary is sooo 1990’s, and far too much of a Hawk, to say nothing of her being
in bed with Wall Street and corporate America. Even so, if we can achieve a
completely Democratic sweep, and if we can perhaps get a more progressive
President, we may have at least a foot in the door towards some meaningful
change, at least domestically.

But this, of course, would
still leave the issue of our absurd Foreign Policy that still wants to maintain
the charade of American exceptionalism and empire. Overcoming the power of the
Military/Industrial/Political complex will not be an easy task, it could even
prove to be impossible unless it collapses because of its own excesses. It is
not unrelated to our collapsing infrastructure, educational, and economic
systems. If a Russian/UK merger occurs, or even a Russian/China merger, the
U.S. will find it impossible to maintain world hegemony as it so desperately is
trying to do.

I see truly monumental
changes shaping up in the world, with the U.S. fading and alliances in Europe,
Asia, and South America becoming more dominant and independent of U.S. control.
I doubt that I will ever see President Obama and the entire Congress of the
U.S., along with “Bibi” and his barbarian coterie, being tried in the Hague for
war crimes but, then, one can’t expect everything. One has to cling desperately
to whatever sliver of hope remains.